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after the recent CES, can we conclude there are no budget to midrange processors and video cards to be released anytime soon? what's the best budget gaming build for P20K? thanks!

PS4 lol

At 20k you have no room for any decent GPU if you have to buy CPU, mobo, RAM, storage, case and power supply on top of it.

The cheapest GPUs you can get are the GT1030 @ 4500 and RX560 @ 7000, and you don't really want to buy a GT1030.

Best bet I think is to get Ryzen 2200G and game on the integrated Vega graphics, which is about as good as GT1030 and you don't have to worry about DDR4/GDDR5 shenanigans.Ryzen 3 2200G - 5500B350/B450 motherboard - 55002x8GB DDR4-3000 - 6000 (need fast ram for Ryzen, but fast RAM is only available starting with 8GB sticks)240GB SSD or 1TB HDD - 2200el cheapo case/PSU (man this hurts to recommend).~roughly 20k hopefully

Advantage with this build is you're on a solid AM4 platform and can upgrade to discrete GPU, and even to 8-core CPUs like the 2700X later on. (might need to replace the el-cheapo PSU you just got to squeeze into the 20k budget though lol).

Don't be tempted to cheap out on the motherboard and get something like A320 because those are completely locked down.

i think i can reuse my SSD (Crucial 120GB lol) and power supply (FSP 550 watts - someone here in PPC recommended i buy FSP as an "investment" for when i buy new hardware i don't need to buy a new PSU). my case (coolermaster k350) i probably need to replace because the power switch have been misbahaving for months now (sometimes the PC turns on immediately after one press but often i have to press and hold and wiggle the switch).

what's wrong with being locked down? i have no plans on overclocking because during summertime the temperature in my room is likely too hot for overclocking anyway.

I am also getting a press F1 to to access menu upon bootup sometimes, i just exit and it seems to be fine. also, i have been getting blue screens since last year quite often. so i am thinking it's time to buy a new PC and install Linux and Steam for XCom 2, Civ V and Rome 2 Total War.

is Ryzen 2200G with A320 mobo and 8 GB RAM be sufficient for that? are there better alternatives?

I am also getting a press F1 to to access menu upon bootup sometimes, i just exit and it seems to be fine. also, i have been getting blue screens since last year quite often. so i am thinking it's time to buy a new PC and install Linux and Steam for XCom 2, Civ V and Rome 2 Total War.

is Ryzen 2200G with A320 mobo and 8 GB RAM be sufficient for that? are there better alternatives?

I am also getting a press F1 to to access menu upon bootup sometimes, i just exit and it seems to be fine. also, i have been getting blue screens since last year quite often. so i am thinking it's time to buy a new PC and install Linux and Steam for XCom 2, Civ V and Rome 2 Total War.

is Ryzen 2200G with A320 mobo and 8 GB RAM be sufficient for that? are there better alternatives?

seems playable, at least at that part of the game. and then suddenly i have an urge to play it lol.

so my question is why Intel over AMD? from what i've read, one of AMD's advantage is that the motherboard today could still be used for a near future upgrade guaranteed (until 2020, IIRC) so isn't the AMD upgrade path better? and if my old 650 Ti suddenly breaks, isn't a comparable backup integrated graphics something nice to have?

AMD Ryzen needs fast RAM because the Infinity Fabric that connects everything runs at the same speed as the memory.

That's why I recommended using DDR4-3000 in the first build, but you can only get them in 8GB sticks which is why the 2200G build I suggested has 16GB of RAM. It's probably worth getting 16GB anyway. 8GB now is gonna be the 4GB of days gone by.

9700k? Or YOLO 9900k?Pure gaming build as I still have my E5-2690 taking care of server/work duties.

I am waiting for Ryzen 3000 series to come out or Intel resolves its supply issues. I am hoping for prices to come down first before making a decision. Luckily my son's I7-3770 rig is still holding up. I replaced the DDR3 RAM modules to fix the hang and rebooting problem. But I also broke the PCiE clip for the video card slot when I was trying to remove the card.

BTW, I have a E5-2670 rig on standby which supplied the replacement DDR3 modules (a pair of 8GB sticks). I then ordered 4x4GB Kingston modules from Laz to replace them. They are more appropriate for the 4 channel X79 system.